Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Jono & Ben's Out Of This World Heartland Journey.. So Far!

Episode Date: October 10, 2022

Jono & Ben have teamed up with Heartland to launch a brand new "Out Of This World" flavour of chips! Here is the storyline so far, including our chat with Kyle from Heartland and Mek from the University Of Christchurch to discuss our space launch!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben. I ain't worried, it is The Hits. You got Jono and Ben, 626. Well, actually, I am worried, because, Jono, you were just saying before, you have signed, is it me? You've signed me up to something? Or you've signed both of us? I said I've done a shady backroom deal. And I won't lie, it was shady. There were people there, Ben, with leather vests,

and they had gold chains and tattoos on their faces. I don't believe any of this. There was tattoos on their faces. I don't believe any of this. Have you seen someone with a face tattoo before? Terrifying. You were saying it's a shady deal,

but I was talking to producer B Humps and he's like, it's not a shady deal, but you have signed us up for something and I don't know why you've, who allowed you to sign us up for something and what is this thing you've signed us up for?

Well, I can't exactly disclose. I've signed an NDA, a non- signed us up for well i can't exactly disclose i've signed an nda a non-disclosure agreement i can't okay you disclose a little bit of me what i can't reveal what exactly your face will be on but you're with me right it's not just me like no it's both of us it's not like oh it's hemorrhoid cream or something boys the face of cancel the hemorrhoid cancel the hemorrhoid cream you know Cancel the hemorrhoid cream deal. Yeah, no, because that's what you... I've done a deal with Chemist Warehouse. You've got to become the face of HemoK.

Oh, yeah. I need the work, so yeah, I'm keen. It'll take anything. No, it's nothing to do with your hemorrhoids, which we know are a problem. But it's a product, okay? It's a product, and it will be everywhere, okay? You, my friend, will be everywhere.

Some money cowboy marketing. So what? Like what? In stores? In stores? On posters? I reckon there'll be a poster or two. You like billboards?

I can see you on a billboard. Yeah. You like your face on a billboard? You're saying it was just for me, but you were saying it was... I'm on there as well. So it's John Owen beingboard? Yeah. You like your face on a billboard? You're saying it was just for me, but you were saying it was... I'm on there as well. So it's John Owen being something. Yeah. I mean, I'm not as excited

because I know about it now, but I can tell your excitement level. Oh, I don't know what it is. Mate, well, I know you love seeing your face on a billboard and your face will be on billboards across the country. Is it good?

Like, it's... It's a great thing. Have you heard of space? Have you heard of space? Because it involves space as well. Joel, mate, if you bring your COVID to work, I thought, did we not learn anything from the last two years, producer Joel?

Coughing and hanging away in the background. I turned away, man. Give me a break. No, I like it. We're ploughing on now. Ploughing on. As you said, shut up and plough on. Shut up and plough on.

But yes, it involves space and it involves... How does space get involved? When are you going to tell me what you've signed us up for? Well, I'll give you a day to just simmer on it and then I'll talk to the person I've done the deal with. Am I going to be excited by this? Or is this going to be something that might... Does space excite you?

Space travel excite you? Yes. Great. Does being on a billboard excite you? Then you'll be excited. I feel like there's some twist. There's no twist. There's no twist.

There's no twist. What I will say. Space involved with a shop. Eh? You're like, we're going to be in stores and we're going to space. I don't know how this works. I don't just look like Jeff Bezos, mate. I can also play in his field as well.

But we'll reveal to you. I'll give you a day or so to just simmer on it. What I will tell you is it's been going on, conversations back and forth for 12 months. Behind my back. 12 months. That's not a word of a lie. Now, being yesterday, I said I'd signed you and myself up for something

which is going to be released very shortly. It involves space. Space. It involves billboards, posters, you everywhere, that beautiful, flawless complexion, you know, your face. It involves space and your face everywhere. I know nothing about this. I'm worried about what you've signed us up for.

Yeah. It's a shady backroom deal, I won't lie. And also, I have signed you up for stuff in the past. It's not like naked Pilates. Okay? It's fully clothed. Okay. I'll tell you that much. Right.

But I've been giving you little clues as to what it could be because it's going to all happen in a couple of weeks' time. And I thought we'd go through to the person I've been doing business with. Okay? Kyle. Well, hopefully he'll tell us more. Hello, Kyle speaking. Kyle. Hopefully he'll tell us more. Hello, Kyle speaking. Kyle.

How? Hey, how's it going, mate? Good, good. How are you? Yeah, good, good. You obviously know who it is. Is Jono here, mate? Look, yeah, when you say obvious, no, it wasn't very obvious.

It was called RID. I was just hoping that it would be someone interesting, but now it was you. Yeah, it wasn't very obvious. It was called R.I.D. I was just hoping that it would be someone interesting, but now it was you. Yeah, it's not quite as interesting. Ben's here as well. Probably no more interesting than Jono, to be fair. So listen, Ben has no idea who you are or what role you're playing in this.

I understand we're forming some sort of partnership somehow now. It involves a partnership going, posters, things around the country, maybe store, I don't know. Space has even been mentioned as well. I'm very confused right now. Well, I mean, look, you know, it depends how cryptic you want me to be.

You know, look, so I'll say, look, what we've got going on here, we've got a, it's a beautiful partnership that's going to go on between, if you want me to give you a few clues, is this what you're after, a few clues about it? A few clues. Well, a partnership that will last you, a friendship. I would say more of a friendship, wouldn't you, Kyle? I'd say that that's probably stretching it a wee bit.

I mean, that's... Partnership. Partnership's great. Hey, look, these things work into a friendship. They do. You can't just go jump to friendship. Maybe I'll be picking up the wrong signals from Kyle. So what would, okay, I'll let you have it.

Give him one clue, Kyle. One clue. Okay, look, you'll be working with a good family that produces from their farm a fantastic product. Okay. Okay, we're getting into some stuff. Some family produces from their farm a fantastic product. Okay, we're getting into some stuff. So family produces from their farm a good product. Okay, good product.

But somehow it ties into, I don't know, you've said space as well. Space is in there too. Space is still in there or is that to throw me off, Jono? No, space is still in there. But you were saying it's in stores. So obviously that's not going to be in stores. So it's going to be in stores around the country? Is it around the country or not?

This is going to be nationwide, boys. Nationwide. We're taking it to both islands. Yeah. Actually, all three. Stuart as well. Should I be excited? I'm excited.

Kyle, how excited? Well, you don't sound as excited as me. I thought we had a friendship going on. Oh, look, look. You know, look, you know, look, you know, people like this, you know, I don't get excited about much, but the general manager that she's sitting across from me, whose name is Charlotte,

she's a big fan. Actually, she's a huge fan. She can hear you boys. Can you say hello to her? Hi, Charlotte. Hi, Charlotte. Thanks for this partnership, whatever this is. Hello.

How are you? Yeah, good, Charlotte. Lovely to hear your voice as well. We're all excited. Everyone's excited. Ben doesn't know what he's getting excited about. No, it's an exciting thing that's going to happen. Yes.

Nationwide, I hear. All the islands. Space. All three islands. Yeah, all the islands and space somehow. Ah, I think that's another clue. About to launch. About to launch?

About to launch. Stuff's happening? Oh, about to launch. Stuff's happening, mate. Oh, okay. Posters? Billboard's posters, Kyle? What are we talking here? Mate, this is going to be a full-on execution of what's going to be our most unique product

that we've ever launched. There you go, Ben. Oh, that's it. That's it. Enough for today. All right. Kyle, Charlotte, lovely to hear from you. You go and have a wonderful day in Timaru.

Oh, is that another? Timaru, yeah. Another little clue. Okay. We'll keep safe and we'll speak soon. All right. Look forward to working on our friendship there. Jono, you signed us up for something,

and that's actually really, really awesome. We're going to team up with Heartland. We've got our own chips coming soon. Out of this world mashup. Now, I haven't tried the flavour, but it's... You'll be interested when you get... It's maple bacon flavoured, sour cream and chives, sprinkle bean with a little bit of salt and vinegar.

All together? Just all in one chip. Have you tried these yet? They are delicious. Wow. Come and try it. It sounds like a wild combination of flavours. When you hear it, you're like, how do they work together?

But then your palate says, yes, yes, yes. Every part of your body's saying no, no, no, but your palate is yes, yes, yes, Ben. Oh, it's going to be out in a couple of weeks. It's launching soon after school holidays. Yeah, first Monday after the school holidays, thanks to Heartland. Now, that's not where the madness stops because this flavour, this combination of flavour, Ben,

it's out of this world. Yeah, well, it does. Now, I've been teasing you with something, and it's time to now introduce you to Mech. Hey, how's it going? Good. How are we doing? Good, good. Good to hear from you guys. He's nothing to do with the chips, though.

Okay, so we've got some chips from Heartland. You're saying it's out of this world, it's a flavour. So what's Mick going to do with it? Mick. Sorry. Sorry. There's a lot going on. Mick. Is this how you saw the video? I was trying to find and change their name this week.

That was a lot smoother than that in the presentation. Yeah, no, sorry. Okay, take two. Okay, so Mick, I'll bring you on, okay? Okay. So I'll bring you on. You go, hey guys, how are you? And then Ben, you just stop. But I haven't told anyone what's going on. Yeah, so Mick, I'll bring you on, okay? Okay. Okay, so I'll bring you on. You go, hey, guys, how are you? And then Ben, you can just stop. But I haven't told anyone what's going on. Yeah, I know.

Well, I'm trying to. I'm trying to. Mick, anyway. Okay, take two. May I introduce you to Mick. Hello. How are you doing? Good.

How's it going? Good. How are you involved in this? I'll bring him in. Okay. You just shush. You sit there. You're along for the ride. How are you involved in this? I'll bring him in. Okay. You just shush. You sit there. You're along for the ride.

Okay. Sorry, just to go over this again, like, what am I saying? No, no, you're, what am I saying? It's like us to say. We're all very confused with this. Okay, well, I'll say it. Okay. Mick is from the University of Canterbury.

Oh, hi. Hi. Great. We're launching chips with Heartland. Yeah. Mech is going to launch those chips into space. Can you do that? Can you put chips into space?

Absolutely. We've launched a whole bunch of things in the past, and, yeah, we're definitely looking forward to this. This is probably the first time it's been done anywhere in the world, so we're up in the world. So we're up for the challenge. We are launching it because the flavour has been out of this world. I see the space time.

Okay, so how high do they need to go to get to space? Right, so we provide a launch service to the edge of space. So anywhere from 15 kilometres up to 40 kilometres. Yeah, to sort of put that into perspective, your average aircraft will fly at around 10 kilometres. So we're at 40 kilometres. Now, it's very expensive. I made a bag of chips. What are we looking at?

$3.40. I don't know what the recommended retail value is. Imagine how much the space mission is costing us. I feel like I suck a lot of the budget on the space mission. The equilibrium is way off. I should have maybe spent it on marketing. What a cool, but this is marketing. What a great launch stunt, I guess,

to send the chips out of this world into space. How long would it take to get up there? It'll take about one hour to get all the way up, and it'll take us about two hours to recover the chips. So look forward to it. Now, you guys, they've been doing research for months. Have they? Behind your back, behind your back.

So, Ben, it'll be like you on a Saturday night. You'll get as high, you'll go highest of highs, and then you'll come crashing down to earth. This is not true. This is not true, but this is awesome. This is actually a legitimate thing. It's going to happen. Yes, yes, absolutely.

Yeah, we've been working on it. We've tested everything and we've got the team ready to go. You could say it's going up in a space chip. Yes. Space chip. That's right. Can I ask this? This might be a really dumb question, but is it cold where they're going?

Like, is it really cold up there? Yes, it is really cold. So we have to prepare the payload to handle up to negative 50 degrees and really low pressures. So, yeah, we're well prepared for that. And it's not a ship as such. It's a balloon, right, that goes to the edge of space. Yes, it is a high-altitude weather balloon that we use,

using helium to lift the payload. Wow. So this balloon expands from the extensive research that I know we've all been involved with in the making, doing all the diagnostics on this journey. The balloon expands from an average size

balloon to how big when it gets up there? Well, when we're filling it up on the ground, it's about one metre in diameter and it'll expand to about five metres before bursting up at that top altitude. So bigger than a car. Yes, definitely bigger than a car.

Wow, okay. Well, I can't wait for this to happen. This is going to be incredible. Thank you so much. It reminds me of Ben after he had his vasectomy. Here we go. How many slanderous things can you put into one conversation? We'll just let... First Monday after school holidays, we launch our chips into the stores, we launch our chips into space,

and Jeff Bezos isn't the only weird bald man travelling in space. That's you, Jono. That's me. I'm talking about me. Well, I can say we went to space now, well, in chip form, but that's incredible. Yeah, brilliant. No, we're looking forward to doing this with you guys and being a world first, for sure.

I won't lie, I'm a little concerned about, you know, we shoot them up and then you say they come hurtling back to Earth. Like, I don't know, where are they landing? Do we need to warn people? We've got all of that side covered, so nothing to worry about. Good. Because it's not great PR if it's like, pack of chips knocked out,

innocent old lady doing her shopping, you know. Thank you so much for what you're doing for us. This is incredible. I can't wait to be there. No, brilliant. Looking forward to it, team. I look forward to meeting you. There we go.

That's happening first Monday after the school holidays. We're live from Christchurch, launching our chips with Heartland and launching them into space.